Bug Fix Advisory selinux-policy-targeted bug fix update

Advisory: RHBA-2009:1026-1
Type: Bug Fix Advisory
Severity: N/A
Issued on: 2009-05-18
Last updated on: 2009-05-18
Affected Products: Red Hat Desktop (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 4)
OVAL: N/A

Details

Updated selinux-policy packages that fix various bugs are now available.

Security-enhanced Linux is a patch of the Linux® kernel and a number of
utilities with enhanced security functionality designed to add mandatory
access controls to Linux. The Security-enhanced Linux kernel contains new
architectural components originally developed to improve the security of
the Flask operating system. These architectural components provide general
support for the enforcement of many kinds of mandatory access control
policies, including those based on the concepts of Type Enforcement®,
Role-based Access Control, and Multi-level Security.

This package contains the SELinux example policy configuration along with
the Flask configuration information and the application configuration files.

These updated selinux-policy-targeted packages provide fixes for the
following bugs:

* virtio block devices on KVM guests did not properly label those devices
as "system_u:object_r:fixed_disk_device_t". This update properly labels
virtio block devices, which is necessary for virtio support.

* SquirrelMail's configtest failed when in SELinux Enforcing mode because
the httpd process was unable to read symbolic links in the /sbin directory,
which is required for configtest. This policy update allows httpd to read
from /sbin, thus resolving this Enforcing-mode access violation.

* SELinux prevented Samba's winbind from creating directories under the
/var/cache/samba/ directory, which was required in order for Samba to work
as part as an Active Directory Services (ADS) domain. This policy update
enables winbind to create directories under the /var/cache/samba/
directory, thus resolving the problem.

All users of selinux-policy-targeted are advised to upgrade to these
updated packages, which resolve these issues.


Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red
Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Updated packages

Red Hat Desktop (v. 4)

SRPMS:
selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.30-2.152.el4.src.rpm     fa40203d05c7bfd166d64b0bab2b96c7
 
IA-32:
selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.30-2.152.el4.noarch.rpm     abad6363dd1a0c1be2fc8e17d740f655
selinux-policy-targeted-sources-1.17.30-2.152.el4.noarch.rpm     3898e766dd5f8b0878ff56f439450340
 
x86_64:
selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.30-2.152.el4.noarch.rpm     abad6363dd1a0c1be2fc8e17d740f655
selinux-policy-targeted-sources-1.17.30-2.152.el4.noarch.rpm     3898e766dd5f8b0878ff56f439450340
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 4)

SRPMS:
selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.30-2.152.el4.src.rpm     fa40203d05c7bfd166d64b0bab2b96c7
 
IA-32:
selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.30-2.152.el4.noarch.rpm     abad6363dd1a0c1be2fc8e17d740f655
selinux-policy-targeted-sources-1.17.30-2.152.el4.noarch.rpm     3898e766dd5f8b0878ff56f439450340
 
IA-64:
selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.30-2.152.el4.noarch.rpm     abad6363dd1a0c1be2fc8e17d740f655
selinux-policy-targeted-sources-1.17.30-2.152.el4.noarch.rpm     3898e766dd5f8b0878ff56f439450340
 
PPC:
selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.30-2.152.el4.noarch.rpm     abad6363dd1a0c1be2fc8e17d740f655
selinux-policy-targeted-sources-1.17.30-2.152.el4.noarch.rpm     3898e766dd5f8b0878ff56f439450340
 
s390:
selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.30-2.152.el4.noarch.rpm     abad6363dd1a0c1be2fc8e17d740f655
selinux-policy-targeted-sources-1.17.30-2.152.el4.noarch.rpm     3898e766dd5f8b0878ff56f439450340
 
s390x:
selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.30-2.152.el4.noarch.rpm     abad6363dd1a0c1be2fc8e17d740f655
selinux-policy-targeted-sources-1.17.30-2.152.el4.noarch.rpm     3898e766dd5f8b0878ff56f439450340
 
x86_64:
selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.30-2.152.el4.noarch.rpm     abad6363dd1a0c1be2fc8e17d740f655
selinux-policy-targeted-sources-1.17.30-2.152.el4.noarch.rpm     3898e766dd5f8b0878ff56f439450340
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 4)

SRPMS:
selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.30-2.152.el4.src.rpm     fa40203d05c7bfd166d64b0bab2b96c7
 
IA-32:
selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.30-2.152.el4.noarch.rpm     abad6363dd1a0c1be2fc8e17d740f655
selinux-policy-targeted-sources-1.17.30-2.152.el4.noarch.rpm     3898e766dd5f8b0878ff56f439450340
 
IA-64:
selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.30-2.152.el4.noarch.rpm     abad6363dd1a0c1be2fc8e17d740f655
selinux-policy-targeted-sources-1.17.30-2.152.el4.noarch.rpm     3898e766dd5f8b0878ff56f439450340
 
x86_64:
selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.30-2.152.el4.noarch.rpm     abad6363dd1a0c1be2fc8e17d740f655
selinux-policy-targeted-sources-1.17.30-2.152.el4.noarch.rpm     3898e766dd5f8b0878ff56f439450340
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 4)

SRPMS:
selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.30-2.152.el4.src.rpm     fa40203d05c7bfd166d64b0bab2b96c7
 
IA-32:
selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.30-2.152.el4.noarch.rpm     abad6363dd1a0c1be2fc8e17d740f655
selinux-policy-targeted-sources-1.17.30-2.152.el4.noarch.rpm     3898e766dd5f8b0878ff56f439450340
 
IA-64:
selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.30-2.152.el4.noarch.rpm     abad6363dd1a0c1be2fc8e17d740f655
selinux-policy-targeted-sources-1.17.30-2.152.el4.noarch.rpm     3898e766dd5f8b0878ff56f439450340
 
x86_64:
selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.30-2.152.el4.noarch.rpm     abad6363dd1a0c1be2fc8e17d740f655
selinux-policy-targeted-sources-1.17.30-2.152.el4.noarch.rpm     3898e766dd5f8b0878ff56f439450340
 
(The unlinked packages above are only available from the Red Hat Network)

Bugs fixed (see bugzilla for more information)

201658 - Squirrelmail configuration problems.
479237 - RHEL4 kvm virtio: selinux-policy-targeted support for virtio block devices
487001 - selinux prevents winbind from creating its kerberos config file



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